Same-Sex Marriage: The Biblical Prospective

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Homosexuality and Same-sex unions may be acceptable in current society, but for the Christian believer it has caused great conflict. Homosexual marriage is an attractive deception of the original act of marriage intended by God. The unions of homosexuals are an affront to creator and His word. Same-sex unions long for the same rewards that have been conferred to heterosexual couples which have been united in holy matrimony. According to the word of God, the biblical prospective: marriage is the union of man and woman, not man and man or woman and woman- same-Sex unions are considered an abomination.
God, not the people, proclaimed what constituted marriage over “8,000 years ago” (Graham). The creator made it clear from the beginning the definition of holy matrimony: “if a man also lies with a man, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them: (Leviticus 20:13, KJV). “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous” (Hebrews 1:14, KJV). God created woman to be with man, not man with man or woman with woman. “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said: Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh” (Matthew 19:4-5, ESV). “But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband” (1Corinthians 2, NIV). If God wanted people to be homosexual; He would have allowed both sexes to have the ability to reproduce, making sexual encounters between homosexuals and lesbians a ...

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